Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 1996, 11:22 AM EST for Ashland County, Lorain County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 1, 1996, 11:22 AM EST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 1, 1996, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, OH, Lorain County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 11:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Northern Portion, OH | |
| Dec 1, 12:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Northern Half, OH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLE 011625 SVRCLE OHC005-083-093-011730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1122 AM EST SUN DEC 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN OHIO ...ASHLAND COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY...LORAIN COUNTY A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF A VERMILION TO MOUNT GILEAD LINE WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE, LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GABRIC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow, Richland | 49 min |
| Dec 1, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron | 49 min |
| Dec 1, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 68 min |
| Dec 1, 11:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina, Wayne | 61 min |
| Dec 1, 11:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 61 min |
| Dec 1, 12:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Portage, Stark, Summit | 73 min |
| Dec 1, 12:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lake | 73 min |
| Dec 1, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Dec 1, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 63 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.